Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Spätantike. Corporeità nella filosofia tardoantica

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Philosophical Importance

In this volume, the idea of the body and corporeality in the philosophy of late antiquity is examined. It deals with questions of ontology, mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, anthropology, politics, theology and aesthetics. The importance of the topic results both from its historical relevance (for the visual arts, literature, the specialist sciences, religion and general cultural history) as well as its philosophical importance. From a philosophical point of view the late antique reflection on corporeality contains an impressive array of meanings discussed in this volume. With contributions by Riccardo Chiaradonna, Giovanni Colpani, Diego de Brasi, Sabine Föllinger, Christoph Helmig, Christoph Horn, Alberto Jori, Alessandro Linguiti, Claudia Lo Casto, Christoph Markschies, Dmitri Nikulin, Federico Petrucci, Flavia Salvatori, Ambra Serangeli, Daniela Taormina, Chiara Tommasi, Denis Walter

Presentation

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Redacción CEIICH
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
History Of

<p class="p1">The third number of <span class="s1"><strong>INTER</strong></span><span class="s2"><strong>disciplina </strong></span>underscores this generic reference of <em>Bodies </em>as an approach to a key issue in the understanding of social reality from a humanistic perspective, and to understand, from the social point of view, the contributions of the research in philosophy of the body, cultural history of the anatomy, as well as the approximations queer, feminist theories and the psychoanalytical, and literary studies.</p>

Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its dominating institution. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome provides a new picture of these developments, focusing on the extraordinary role played by members of the traditional elite, the senatorial aristocracy, in the redefinition of the city, its institutions, and spaces. During this period, Roman senators and their families became increasingly involved in the management of the city and its population, in building works, and in the performance of secular and religious ceremonies and rituals. As this study shows, for approximately three hundred years the houses of the Roman elite competed with imperial palaces and churches in shaping the political map and the social life of the city. Making use of modern theories of urban space, the book considers a vast array of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic documents to show how the former centre of the Mediterranean world was progressively redefined and controlled by its own elite.

The Politics of Poetics: Nonnus' Dionysiaca and the World of Late Antiquity

Ramus ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Shorrock
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Focus

Over the last thirty years or so our understanding of the world of late antiquity has undergone a radical transformation. In addition to the important contributions by historians such as Peter Brown (on the body and society) and Averil Cameron (on the evolution of Christian discourse), new perspectives have also been opened up on the material culture of the later empire. In the arena of literary criticism, however, signs of any analogous transformation have been much less obvious. Though, of course, it is easy to overstate the case, it is nevertheless clear from the bibliographic record that the literature of the late antique period has not yet been subject to the intense critical attention of other epochs, such as the Second Sophistic. This article will attempt on a necessarily modest scale to address this lack of critical attention.My primary focus is the fifth-century CE epic poem, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus, a product of Roman Egypt, written in Greek in forty-eight chapter-length books. It runs to over 21,000 hexameter lines—some five thousand lines longer than Homer's Iliad—and tells the story of the wine-loving Dionysus, the hero whose destiny it is to become a god. Though its influence on the wider literary culture of late antiquity was profound, it has remained a marginalised and neglected text within the history of modern classical scholarship. The Dionysiaca exists as an often quoted yet rarely read compendium of obscure mythological information, and is periodically mined for allusions to earlier and implicitly ‘better’ poets whose works have only survived in fragmentary form, but it is rarely considered on its own terms.

scholarly journals DECONSTRUCTING THE SYMBOLIC CITY: JEROME AS GUIDE TO LATE ANTIQUE ROME

2012 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Grig
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
History Of ◽  
Saint Jerome ◽  
The City ◽  
Main Attraction

This article considers the writings of Saint Jerome as a source for writing a cultural history of the city of Rome in late antiquity. Jerome is of course, in many respects, an unreliable witness but his lively and often conflicted accounts of the city do none the less provide significant insights into the city during an age of transition. He provides a few snippets for the scholar of topography, but these do not constitute the main attraction. Jerome's city of Rome appears above all as a textual palimpsest: variously painted in Vergilian colours as Troy and frequently compared with the biblical cities of Babylon, Bethlehem and Jerusalem. In the final analysis, it is argued, Jerome's Rome is surprisingly unstable, indeed a ‘soft city’.

scholarly journals The image of a Christian in Sidonius Apollinaris’ letters

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Elena Litovchenko ◽  
Sergey Kutomanov ◽  
Marina Ryabtseva ◽  
Inna Onoprienko
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Social Stratum ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Sidonius Apollinaris

The paper deals with the collective image of a Christian reconstructed by comparing several portraits described in the 5th century Gallo-Roman writer’s epistles and verses Sidonius Apollinaris. This source was chosen due to the fact that Sidonius himself combined the features inherent for both the representative of the highest social stratum of the Late Antique society and for the Christian shepherd. The method of cultural and historical reconstruction with combination of biographical and retrospective methods is used for the formation of the image of a Christian of the Late Antiquity. The authors come to the conclusion that during the 5th century AD as a true Christian was deemed such person who observes the biblical commandments and church rites, distinguished by patience and mercy. The image of a Christian evolved in this period from the weakly expressed version presented by Germanicus, a man for whom, more important the ancient cult of the body, despite belonging to Christian flock, to the ideal, seeking to asceticism, who embodied the bishop Faustus.

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildar Garipzanov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Medieval Europe

This book presents a cultural history of graphic signs such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other graphic devices, examining how they were employed to relate to and interact with the supernatural world, and to represent and communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. It analyses its graphic visual material with reference to specific historical contexts and to relevant late antique and early medieval texts as a complementary way of looking at the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. This monograph treats such graphic signs as typologically similar forms of visual communication, reliant on the visual-spatial ability of human cognition to process object-like graphic forms as proxies for concepts and abstract notions—an ability that is commonly discussed in modern visual studies with reference to categories such as visual thinking, graphic visualization, and graphicacy. Thanks to this human ability, the aforementioned graphic signs were actively employed in religious and socio-political communication in the first millennium ad. This approach allows for a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments, and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. As such, this book will serve as a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists as well as the informed general public.

Female Asceticism in Late Antique Georgian Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Shota Matitashvili
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Typical Representative ◽  
In The Beginning

Abstract This article examines the forms of female asceticism preserved in the so-called extended recension of the Life of St. Nino – a young Christian Virgin who converted the eastern Georgian kingdom of Iberia in the beginning of the fourth century. This study attempts to reinterpret the traditionally-established point of view about the origins of this composition and investigates several aspects of early Georgian Christianity. According to traditional scholarly opinion, the Vita of St. Nino was composed during the eighth and ninth centuries in order to reinforce the cult of the holy virgin who converted Iberia but the contextualization of the vita into the literary realm of late antiquity reveals more ancient origins of various episodes and layers of the vita. We see martyrs, missionaries, miracle workers, prophets and apostles in the images of Nino and her fellow women. Nino is a typical representative of the female ascetic community formed in early Christendom. Apparently, after the invention of the Georgian alphabet, the literary interactions between Georgians and other eastern Christian peoples intensified. As the Martyrdom of the holy Queen Šušanik reveals, already in the fifth century Georgians had translated the acts of martyrs which certainly influenced the subsequent development of Georgian literature. Of course, the Life has an overwhelmingly legendary and fictional character but its ‘sacred fictions’ originated much earlier than has generally been thought in scholarship.

scholarly journals INTERPRETATION OF THE PLOT OF THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC IN THE VISUAL ARTS OF JUDAISM OF LATE ANTIQUITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
ALEKSANDRA K. GRIGOREVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Artistic Tradition ◽  
Sacrifice Of Isaac

This article deals with the disclosure of the meaning of the plot of Akeda, which it acquired in the artistic tradition of Judaism in late antiquity. When the Temple was destroyed a new worldview begins to form among the Jews of both the Holy Land and the Diaspora and the synagogue becomes the center of the study of the Scriptures. Synagogues of late antiquity are decorated with frescoes and mosaics on religious themes, and among the plots used in decoration, the plot of Akeda stands out - it is found in direct connection with Aron Kodesh, the repository of the Torah scrolls. Moreover, in artistic interpretations, Akeda’s plot begins to acquire new details, which form a certain part of the symbolic picture of Jewish late antique iconography. In the course of the article, three images of the sacrifice of Isaac in late antique synagogues are described, the features of each image are noted, and then, some features of the artistic interpretation are highlighted on the basis of the literary tradition, as well as concepts in which the artistic and literary interpretations differ...

scholarly journals Thirty-four Years after "Leda Christiana". Misery and Splendour of the First Century of Coptic Art History

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 217-251
Author(s):  
László Török
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
The Impact

The course of the research of Egyptian Late Antique art was influenced for more than seven decades in a most unfortunate manner by the erroneous intrepretation of the archaeological context of the foruth century AD mythological reliefs discovered in the 1890s by Édouard Naville at Heracleopolis Magna (modern Ahnas). The misinterpretation of the find circumstances led to the postulate of a Christianisation of pagan themes in Coptic art and of their employment in the decoration of Christian churches. The actual architectural and iconographic context of mythological reliefs from Ahnas and other Egyptian Late Antique sites was identified by Hjalmar Torp in a 1969 paper in which he suggested that the mythological reliefs, as well as the contemporary carvings with Christian themes, came from pagan and Christian funerary edifices. Torp also pointed out the impact of Roman funerary iconography on the decoration of third-fifth century Egyptian tomb chapels. The present study discusses the trends prevailing in the research of Egyptian Late Antique art before and after 1969 from the special point of view of Torp’s seminal work. Particular attention is paid to the interconnected issues of chronology, social-cultural context, and quality stratification. The analysis of individual groups of sculptures, paintings, and luxury textiles presents new data for the assessment of the international context of Egyptian art in the Late Antique and early Byzantine periods as well as for the investigation of the transfiguration of Egyptian culture in Late Antiquity.

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